Kenneth Clarkson and Emily Schey named partners at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C.

 Attorneys Bolster Firm’s Robust Real Estate Practice Group

Kenneth Clarkson and Emily Schey have been named partners at Southfield, Mich.-based Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C, joining the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group. Jaffe CEO Bill Sider made the announcement.

As a member of the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group, Mr. Clarkson focuses his practice on complex real estate transactions, secured financing, resolution of business disputes and the organization and operation of closely held businesses. He joins Jaffe with extensive experience in the development of senior living facilities, including independent, assisted and memory care projects. He works regularly with health care REITs in structuring joint ventures, acquisitions and sales of senior facilities. Mr. Clarkson’s experience also includes closing government assisted financing loan transactions, including HUD insured 223(f), 221(d)(4), 223(a)(7) and 232 loan products, and Fannie Mae lending structures. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School in 1979, and frequently speaks to professional and legal groups including the National Business Institute and regional bar associations.

Also joining the Firm’s Real Estate Practice Group, Ms. Schey focuses her practice on all phases of real estate transactional work. She has been involved in a braod range of transactions, including the acquisition, disposition, development, financing and leasing of commercial real estate. Ms. Schey has represented both landlords and tenants in the negotiation and drafting of retail, office and ground leases and more recently assisted clients with the acquisition of several triple net, single tenant properties in various locations throughout the country. She has also advised clients in connection with complex loan modification, forbearance and refinance matters. Ms. Schey is a member of numerous organizations including the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and Commercial Real Estate Women’s Network (CREW). Ms. Schey earned her juris doctorate from the University of Denver College of Law in 2004. 

Michigan-basedJaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss is recognized throughout the nation as a relationship-based, highly qualified, full-service business law firm. With an outstanding reputation for providing sophisticated legal services and counsel to businesses of all sizes, family-owned enterprises, individuals and entrepreneurs, Jaffe has more than 100 attorneys in its Southfield, Detroit, Ann Arbor and Naples offices.?  Among the Firm’s practice areas are appellate, aviation, corporate, criminal, e-commerce, electronic banking, employee benefits, environmental, estate planning, family law, financial services, franchise law, immigration, insolvency & reorganization, insurance, intellectual property, information technology, litigation, labor, mergers & acquisitions, mortgage banking, property tax appeals, public finance, real estate, securities and tax law.

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